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(1909–2005). The Austrian-born U.S. management consultant, educator, and author Peter F. Drucker was a pioneer in the field of management education. He published many books and articles in which he foretold trends in industrial society, modern business management, and corporate management. He taught that profit-seeking corporations should also consider the effects of their actions on their employees and on society.

Peter Ferdinand Drucker was born on Nov. 19, 1909, in Vienna. He received a doctorate in public and international law from the University of Frankfurt. He left Germany after the rise of Hitler and went to England in 1933. In 1937 he moved to the United States, where he worked as an adviser to British banks and as a foreign correspondent. He became a U.S. citizen in 1943. Drucker taught at New York University from 1950 to 1972. Beginning in 1971 he also taught at Claremont Graduate University in California, which named its school of management for him in 1987. Drucker also taught at Pomona and Bennington colleges. He worked as an advisor to corporations large and small, as well as to governmental agencies. From 1975 to 1995 he wrote for the Wall Street Journal.

Among his more than 30 books were The New Society, published in 1950, which discussed industrial society; The Concept of the Corporation (1946), which was about modern business management; Technology, Management and Society (1970), which speculated about technological change and the future; and The Changing World of the Executive (1982), which discussed practical corporate management in its essays. His books were translated into more than 20 languages and sold tens of millions of copies.

The Peter F. Drucker Foundation for Nonprofit Management (later renamed the Leader to Leader Institute) was founded in 1990 to introduce nonprofit groups to Drucker’s teachings. In 2002 Drucker was awarded the Presidential medal of freedom. He died in Claremont, Calif., on Nov. 11, 2005.

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